Environmental Sustainability in Transatlantic Perspective

Introduction; Manuela Achilles and Dana Elzey PART I. BROADER CONTEXTS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 1. Putting a Price on the Planet: Economic Valuation of Nature's Services; Mark White 2. International Trade and the Environment: Does Globalization Create Havens of Pollution?; Peter Debaere 3. New Directions in Green City Building; Timothy Beatley PART II. GERMANY'S ENERGY REVOLUTION 4. The German Green Party: From a Broad Social Movement to a People's Party; Arne Jungjohann 5. Germany's Ecological Tax Reform: A Retrospective; Michael Mehling 6. 'Nuclear Power? No, Thank You!': Germany's Energy Revolution Post-Fukushima; Manuela Achilles 7. Ambitions and Realities of the German Energy Revolution; Brian Marrs PART III. TRANSATLANTIC COOPERATION AT THE MACRO AND MICRO LEVELS 8. The Transatlantic Climate Bridge: Challenges and Opportunities; Anja Kueppers-McKinnon, Georg Maue and Carmen Kristan 9. Formalizing the Transfer and Application of Environmental Policies and Lessons From Germany to the United States: The Case of Northern Virginia; Dale Medearis 10. Cultivating the Cross-Cultural Engineer: Key Insights; Dana M. Elzey and Kerstin Steitz 11. Designing for the Anthropocene: The Duisburg RhinePark; Jorg Sieweke 12. Eco-Revelatory Design: An Approach you Can Bank On; Eugene Ryang

Manuela Achilles, University of Virginia, USATimothy Beatley, University of Virginia, USAPeter Debaere, University of Virginia, USADana Elzey, University of Virginia, USAArne Jungjohann, State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg, GermanyCarmen Kristan, German Embassy, Washington DC, USAAnja Kueppers-McKinnon, German Embassy, Washington DC, USAGeorg Maue, German Embassy, Washington DC, USABrian Marrs, Yale University, USADale Medearis, Northern Virginia Regional Commission, USA Michael Mehling, Ecologic Institute,Washington DC, USAJorg Sieweke, University of Virginia, USAKerstin Steitz, University of Virginia, USAMark White, University of Virginia, USAEugene Ryang, Waterstreet Studio, Virginia, USA